Master of Falcon-Hurst

The heading of this review is an oversimplification, but it's essentially what happens to virtually everyone in this series of books. Whatever you think of the actual stories, it is evident that massive research on the slave trade in the USA as well as Cuba was required to write them. A couple elements are a little hard to believe, such as why a light-skinned slave passing as white, and having escaped to the safety of the North, would for one second even CONSIDER returning to the South. Also, readers will be disappointed if they would like to know how Hammond Maxwell and his second wife, Augusta got along; it is suggested that they were happy, but thre are few details, and their deaths are not much more than a footnote. However, whatever their flaws, this series of books deserves a spot in literary history because they were the first to accurately describe what the slave trade was really like. They were published during the height of the civil rights movement, and one wonders how many places they were banned, or at least not sold in the South

Ive read almost all of these books by these three authors and found them both entertaining and informitive.